He thought it was no time to ſtay, / And let the Night too ſteal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the BareRidge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ſtraid[…]
Any extendedprotuberance; a projecting line or strip.
It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and theridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick.
The highest point on a roof, represented by ahorizontal line where two roof areasintersect, running the length of the area.
1907 January,Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, inThe Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen,→OCLC:
Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with theridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
(fortifications) The highest portion of theglacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
[…]Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, / And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozenridges of the Alpes, / Or any other groundinhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote.
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